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Author Spelman, Nicola

Title Popular Music and the Myths of Madness
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; General Editorâ#x80;#x99;s Preface; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Anti-Psychiatry; Music and Madness Criticism; Investigating Popular Music and Madness; 1 â#x80;#x98;All the Madmenâ#x80;#x99;: Denouncing the Psychiatric Establishment and Supposedly â#x80;#x98;Saneâ#x80;#x99; Through the Art of Role Play; 2 â#x80;#x98;Kill Your Sonsâ#x80;#x99;: Lou Reedâ#x80;#x99;s Verification of Psychiatryâ#x80;#x99;s Covert Social Function; 3 Reversing Us and Them: Anti-Psychiatry and Pink Floydâ#x80;#x99;s The Dark Side of the Moon
4 â#x80;#x98;The Ballad of Dwight Fryâ#x80;#x99;: Madness as Social Deviancy, and the Condemnation of Involuntary Confinement5 The Foolâ#x80;#x99;s Demise: Critiques of Social Exclusion Found in the Beatlesâ#x80;#x99; â#x80;#x98;The Fool on the Hillâ#x80;#x99; and Elton Johnâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x98;Madman Across the Waterâ#x80;#x99;; Conclusion; Characterization; Madness and the Family; The Allure of the â#x80;#x98;Madâ#x80;#x99; Fool; Alienation and the Madness of War; Criticism of Psychiatric Treatments; Criticism of Involuntary Psychiatric Confinement; Musical Depictions of Madness and Identified Commonalities; Suggested Reasons for the Interest in Madness and Anti-Psychiatry
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Subject Mental illness in music.
Popular music-1961-1970-History and criticism
Popular music-1971-1980-History and criticism
Mental illness in music
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317078128
1317078128